Do you write production code as a data scientist?

production

In the past month, I posted this question to my friends, peers, online tech forum, and got responses from more than 30 data scientists in various industries and different academic background and career path. The responses show a wide spectrum of data scientists’ involvement in production, and reveal some shared concerns about career development among data scientists.

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Goal setting for function fitting (regression)

Goal

Whenever we see the word “optimization”, the first question to ask is “what is to be optimized?” Defining an optimization goal that is meaningful and approachable is the starting point in function fitting. In this post, I will discuss goal setting for function fitting in regression. 

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Restrict function search space by assumptions

Gaussian process

In the previous post, I discussed the function fitting view of supervised learning. It is theoretically impossible to find the best fitting function from an infinite search space. In this post, I will discuss how we can restrict the search space in function fitting with assumptions. 

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